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TrainingIndustry.com has announced its Top 20 Sales Training Companies List, as part of its mission to continually monitor the training marketplace for the best providers of training services and technologies.​

TrainingIndustry.com has announced its Top 20 Leadership Training Companies List, as part of its mission to continually monitor the training marketplace for the best providers of training services and technologies. For the 4th year, Dale Carnegie Training has been recognized as an industry leader in this category

(BPT) - Do your employees feel personally connected to the organization they work for? Would they recommend your workplace to others? If the answer to any of those questions is 'no,' you're far from alone. Employee engagement is way down, so low that a recent study found that two-thirds of the U.S. workforce is not fully engaged.
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Many kids grew up playing the game “Kick The Can.” This tag game required a person to tag players, where they are then to “jail” and frozen until rescued. Free players had to “kick the can” in order to release players sent to “jail.” This tag game mirrors what is happening to many sales people today.​

New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has decreed there will be no more working from home for Yahoo staff. A company memo leaked to the press on Friday announced that Yahoo employees would no longer be permitted to work remotely. The decision seems to be based on a desire for increased productivity and a more connected company culture.

Who could have guessed that one day these two brothers – Baltimore’s John Harbaugh and San Francisco’s Jim Harbaugh – would be facing each other in Super Bowl XLVII?
If someone came up to you at the end of last year and asked you to give them a guarantee of what teams would be in this year’s Super Bowl, could you have done it? Prospects ask sales people for guarantees all the time. They are taking a risk that your solution will give them what they need, but this risk creates doubt.

If you think employee engagement is one of those warm and fuzzy phrases found in the self-help aisle, think again. According to new research, not only should you be taking employee engagement seriously, it’s probably already a problem within your company. And you might be to blame.